"and the 15 km freestyle pursuit. Cross-country skiing at the 1994 Winter Olympics – Men's 15 kilometre freestyle pursuit The men's 15 kilometre freestyle pursuit cross-country skiing competition at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway, was held on 19 February at Birkebeineren Ski Stadium in Lillehammer. Each skier started based on the results from the 10 km classical event, skiing the entire 15 kilometre course after the first-to-finish principle. The Norwegian Bjørn Dæhlie was the 1993 World champion. Men's 15 kilometre pursuit was not part of the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Canada. The time consists the added times"
"Trivial Pursuit (U.S. game show) Trivial Pursuit is an American game show that ran on The Family Channel from June 7, 1993 to December 30, 1994. Loosely based on the board game of the same name, it was hosted by Wink Martindale with Randy West announcing. The show was played in two halves. The first half was an interactive game show, while the other half was a traditional game show. Nine players (originally twelve) competed for three spots in the second half of the show. Five questions with four multiple-choice answers were asked by the host. The players had 10"
"part of Hasbro) in 1988, after initially being turned down by the Virgin Group; in 2008 Hasbro bought the full rights, for US$80 million. , nearly 88 million games had been sold in 26 countries and 17 languages. Northern Plastics of Elroy, Wisconsin produced 30,000,000 games between 1983 and 1985. In December 1993, Trivial Pursuit was named to the ""Games Hall of Fame"" by ""Games"" magazine. An online version of ""Trivial Pursuit"" was launched in September 2003. The object of the game is to move around the board by correctly answering trivia questions. Questions are split into six categories, with"
"invented ""Trivial Pursuit"", had also attended Colgate. They wanted to invent a game that provided an intellectual challenge but also had a broader appeal than games of straight trivia questions that had been very popular in the 80's. Within two years, they had their first prototype of ""TriBond"" and were ready to market the game. Initial marketing for the game was difficult. Parker Brothers, Mattel, Tyco and several other game companies all turned ""TriBond"" down. At the time they were working with Patch Products to manufacture the game. Tim Walsh talked them into hiring him on as a marketing manager"
"Trivial Pursuit and for the American games Been There Done That and TimeTripper. His most recent Trivial Pursuit projects have been exclusively for the US market. The Trivial Pursuit Rolling Stones Collectors Edition on which his editor was former Rolling Stones bass guitarist Bill Wyman and the Classic Rock Edition Two books available in paperback and on Amazon Kindle. In Pursuit of Trivia,(Memoir) and Stuff They Didn't Teach You in School, (Miscellany of unusual and humorous facts) Brian Highley Brian Highley was born in Halifax, Yorkshire. (22/12/1943). Following a short career in teaching he became involved with the music industry"
"Jay Wolpert also produced at least one pilot in 1987 with Worldvision Enterprises that was not picked up; Martindale posted both pilots to his YouTube channel in 2014). This was the second home version that was based on a board game itself, the first was ""TV Scrabble"" by Selchow & Righter in 1987 and then ""Celebrity Name Game"" (based on the board game ""Identity Crisis"") by PlayMonster (formerly Patch) in 2016. Trivial Pursuit (U.S. game show) Trivial Pursuit is an American game show that ran on The Family Channel from June 7, 1993 to December 30, 1994. Loosely based on"
"made-for-television movie entitled ""Breaking all the Rules: The Creation of Trivial Pursuit"" aired. Treated largely as a comedy, the movie featured the music of Jimmy Buffett and portrayed the creators of the game as three beer-loving Canadians. In Spain, a version of the show called ""Trivial Pursuit: Spain Plays"" premiered in September 2008 on Antena 3. In 1984, Bally Sente released a ""Trivial Pursuit"" arcade game. Like the board game, several variants were also released. British software company Domark released a home computer version (billed as ""Trivial Pursuit: The Computer Game"") for multiple formats during the 1980s. This version included"
"answering questions from categories that match the colored wedge. Unlike the board game, however, it took two questions to complete a wedge, and no board or die was used. Red replaced the brown-colored wedge. In the first three rounds, each player received two turns consisting of a category choice followed by a question posed by host Martindale. A correct answer lit up a wedge but an incorrect answer gave the two opponents a chance to buzz-in and steal the wedge. In the first round, the six traditional Trivial Pursuit categories were used. This round used either the categories from the"
"Trivial Pursuit: America Plays Trivial Pursuit: America Plays is an American syndicated game show loosely based on the board game of the same name. It premiered on September 22, 2008 and aired first-run episodes through May 22, 2009 (with repeats continuing until September 18). The host was Christopher Knight (the pilot was hosted by Mark L. Walberg), and the show is produced by Wheeler/Sussman Productions in association with Hasbro. The series was syndicated by Debmar-Mercury. ""Trivial Pursuit: America Plays"" replaced ""Temptation"" on a majority of stations that carried it, and inherited its predecessor's abysmal ratings. In January 2009, it was"
"Worth asked the Supreme Court of the United States to review the case, but the Court declined, denying certiorari in March 1988. In 1994, David Wall of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, launched a lawsuit against the game's creators. He claimed that in the fall of 1979, he and a friend were hitchhiking near Sydney, Nova Scotia, when they were picked up by Chris Haney. Wall claimed that he told Haney about his idea for the game in detail, including the shape of the markers. Wall's mother testified she found drawings of his that looked like plans for a ""Trivial Pursuit""-like"
"Trivial Pursuit: Unhinged Trivial Pursuit: Unhinged is a video game based on the trivia board game of the same name. It was released in 2004 for Xbox and PlayStation 2 video game consoles and Personal Computers. This mode is played exactly like the original board game. Players take turns moving their pieces around the Trivial Pursuit board answering questions in six different categories to win one differently colored ""pie piece"" in each category. The first player to collect all six ""pie pieces"" and answer a randomly selected question in the game board's hub is the winner. The titular Unhinged mode"
"""Trivial Pursuit"" asked, ""Who wins in the Japanese version of ""King Kong vs. Godzilla""?"" and stated that the correct answer was ""Godzilla"". Various media have repeated this falsehood, including the ""Los Angeles Times"". But with the rise of home video, Westerners have increasingly been able to view the original version and the myth has been dispelled. The only differences between the two endings of the film are minor: In 1993, comic book artist Arthur Adams wrote and drew a one-page story that appeared in the anthology ""Urban Legends"" #1, published by Dark Horse Comics, which dispels the popular misconception about"
"at age 59 on May 31, 2010, following a long illness. Haney was survived by his second wife, Hiam, his first wife, Sarah, and their three children. Chris Haney (Trivial Pursuit) Chris Haney (August 9, 1950 – May 31, 2010) was a Canadian journalist and co-creator of the ""Trivial Pursuit"" board game with Scott Abbott. Haney was born on August 9, 1950 in Welland, Ontario. He attended a high school in Hamilton, Ontario but dropped out at age 17, a decision he later regretted, saying he should have dropped out earlier. His father worked for The Canadian Press news agency"
"wedge of each color and filled up his playing piece, he must return to the hub and answer a question in a category selected by the other players. If this question is answered correctly, that player wins the game. Otherwise, the player must leave the center of the board and try again on the next turn. Over the years, numerous editions of ""Trivial Pursuit"" have been produced, usually specializing in various fields. The original version is known as the ""Genus"" edition (or ""Genus I""). Several other general knowledge editions (such as ""Genus II"") have followed. Some include, Junior Edition (1985),"
"In 1984 Brian Highley became the UK question writer for Trivial Pursuit. During this period he helped establish the UK game as the lead edition of this product with his questions being circulated around the world for use in overseas editions where appropriate. He researched and wrote all of the questions for the 1990 BBC 1 Trivial Pursuit. Brian was the face of trivia in the UK and has appeared on almost every TV and radio chat show. Brian Highley also produced the questions for the UK edition of the Swedish game Insikt, for UBI, which was the follow-up to"
"begun in the Top End of the Northern Territory and in southeastern Australia, with the biggest successes in November and December. A handful of individuals are also known to be chasing in other countries, including the United Kingdom, Israel, Italy, Spain, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Finland, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Poland, Bulgaria, Slovenia, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Estonia, Argentina, South Africa, Bangladesh, and New Zealand; although many people trek to the Great Plains of North America from these and other countries around the world (especially from the UK). The number of chasers and number countries where chasers are active expanded"
"turn. This results in certain victory. In a business venture parallel to ""Trivial Pursuit"" in Canada, the British inventors set up their own company to make and publish the game. This attracted a fair amount of press attention at the time and Kensington picked up a UK Game of the Year award. Attention for the game was short-lived and the game is now out of print, however secondhand copies are readily available online. A 1979 edition was sold in a package resembling a double-LP album. The front part had a cut-out showing the centre of the one-piece non-folding gameboard which"
"to a credit roll, and the studio contestant won a Trivial Pursuit board game. At any point, if it became mathematically impossible for one bank to overtake the other, the final round stopped. If the studio bank won in this situation, the studio player had the chance to play the next unused question as a double-or-nothing wager, or decline to do so. If America's bank is higher, the remaining questions were discarded. If there was a tie at the end of the game, a sudden-death question was asked. The bank who answered the question correctly won the game. Trivial Pursuit:"
"typographical errors and deliberately placed misinformation. One of the questions in ""Trivial Pursuit"" was ""What was Columbo's first name?"" with the answer ""Philip"". That information had been fabricated to catch anyone who might try to violate his copyright. The inventors of ""Trivial Pursuit"" acknowledged that Worth's books were among their sources, but argued that this was not improper and that facts are not protected by copyright. The district court judge agreed, ruling in favor of the ""Trivial Pursuit"" inventors. The decision was appealed, and in September 1987 the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit upheld the ruling."
"Chris Haney (Trivial Pursuit) Chris Haney (August 9, 1950 – May 31, 2010) was a Canadian journalist and co-creator of the ""Trivial Pursuit"" board game with Scott Abbott. Haney was born on August 9, 1950 in Welland, Ontario. He attended a high school in Hamilton, Ontario but dropped out at age 17, a decision he later regretted, saying he should have dropped out earlier. His father worked for The Canadian Press news agency and helped him get a job as a copy boy with the company. He was hired by ""The Montreal Gazette"" after working at photo desks in Montreal"
"book series. One of the questions in the original American Trivial Pursuit game asked for the headline of ""The New York Times"" on July 21, 1969. The answer was ""Men Walk On Moon"". In the game ""Lego Marvel Super Heroes"" the ""Human Torch"" said ""That's one small step for man, and one giant climb on a ""HYDRA"" rocket"" as a reference and joke to ""Apollo 11"". In the backstory of the Touhou Project games, ""Apollo 11"" was mistaken for an act of invasion by the Moon's resident Lunarians, leading to the Lunar War. In the moon mission of """", there"
"racing. Each team is required to carry a GPS monitoring device (without offering navigational assistance) which allows race organizers and spectators to track each team real-time via the Internet on the Primal Quest website primalquest.org. The first Primal Quest was held in 2002 in Telluride, Colorado. In 2003, the race moved to Lake Tahoe and 2004 featured a course on Orcas Island, in the State of Washington. CBS broadcast highlights of the race in 2003 and 2004 with a full feature episodic series on OLN. Primal Quest was the first expedition adventure race to be featured on major network television."
"years the word has come to refer to obscure and arcane bits of dry knowledge as well as nostalgic remembrances of pop culture. The board game ""Trivial Pursuit"" was released in 1982 and was a craze in the U.S. for several years thereafter. The largest current trivia contest is held in Stevens Point, Wisconsin, at the University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point's college radio station WWSP 89.9 FM. This is a college station with 11,500 watts of power and about a 65-mile (105-kilometre) radius, and the contest serves as a fund raiser for the station. The contest is open to anyone, and"
"aired from 2008 to 2009 and hosted by Christopher Knight. In September 2004, Roger Lodge hosted a sports trivia game show on ESPN entitled ""ESPN Trivial Pursuit"", which aired five episodes. BBC Television produced a ""Trivial Pursuit"" game show based on the game in the UK hosted by Rory McGrath. Another British version (with rules/format similar to the Wink Martindale version, and also using the same theme tune as the Wink Martindale version) was hosted on The Family Channel (now Challenge) by Tony Slattery. Birgit Lechtermann hosted a version for VOX in Germany from 1993 to 1994. In 1988, a"
"in the following locations: Raid Gauloises The Raid Gauloises or The Raid is considered by many to be the first modern adventure race and was first held in 1989. Its creator, Gérard Fusil, took the existing concept of long distance endurance races, and focused on the team aspects, requiring each competitor to be part of a five-person co-ed team. The Raid had no set course, with competitors being required to rely on their wits and judgment to reach the specified checkpoints. The Raid was named after its original sponsor, the Gauloises Cigarette Company. In 1996, Fusil left the Raid to"
"to find the direction or location. The first orienteering competition open to the public was held in Norway in 1897. From the beginning, locations selected for orienteering have been chosen in part for their beauty, natural or man-made. For the first public orienteering competition in Sweden, in 1901, control points included two historic churches, Spånga kyrka and Bromma kyrka (a round church). With the invention of inexpensive yet reliable compasses, the sport gained popularity during the 1930s. By 1934, over a quarter million Swedes were participants, and orienteering had spread to Finland, Switzerland, the Soviet Union, and Hungary. Following World"
"each one having its own color to readily identify itself; in the classic version of ""Trivial Pursuit"", these are Geography (blue), Entertainment (pink), History (yellow), Arts & Literature (originally brown, later purple), Science & Nature (green), and Sports & Leisure (orange). The game includes a board, playing pieces, question cards, a box, small plastic wedges to fit into the playing pieces, and a die. Playing pieces used in ""Trivial Pursuit"" are round and divided into six sections, similar to a cheese triangle. A small plastic wedge, sometimes called cheese, can be placed into each of these sections to mark each"
"and was won by Oxford. The Expedition travelled through Tunisia, across the Sahara, into Egypt, through Ethiopia, The genesis of the race came as a bet in a bar in Hong Kong between David Waters and Adrian Cowell (who developed and planned the Expedition but was eventually was unable to take part). The teams obtained sponsorship and part of the object of the Expedition was to test equipment for some 50 British firms, and to collect information on routes for the explorers' clubs of the two universities. The Expedition was such a success that it inspired Adrian Cowell to formulate"
"Two years after that program went off the air, Martindale teamed up with Bill Hillier and The Family Channel to produce a series of ""interactive"" game shows that put an emphasis on home viewers being able to play along from home and win prizes. Four series were commissioned and Martindale served as host for all four. The first to premiere, on June 7, 1993, was ""Trivial Pursuit"", an adaptation of the popular trivia-based board game. On March 7, 1994, the list-based ""Shuffle"" and ""Boggle"", another board game adaptation, premiered and were much different from ""Trivial Pursuit"" which was presented more"
"Championship event in Newfoundland & Labrador. The Adventure Racing World Series and its ultimate event, the AR World Championships have been held every year since. The 2013 World Championships were in Costa Rica, 2014 in Ecuador, 2015 in Brazil, 2016 in Australia, and 2017 in the United States. The 2018 event will be off the coast of Africa on the Reunion Island. In 2002, the first major expedition length race to be held exclusively in the United States was launched. Primal Quest has been sporadically held since its inception - about 6 times from 2002 to 2017. In 2004, the"
"All-Star Sports, Baby Boomers, 1980s, All About the 80s, and 1990s. In the United Kingdom, ""Trivial Pursuit"" players complained that the 2006 version of the game was ""dumbed down"" in comparison to previous editions, with easier questions and more focus on celebrities and show business. In October 1984, Fred L. Worth, author of ""The Trivia Encyclopedia"", ""Super Trivia"", and ""Super Trivia II"", filed a $300 million lawsuit against the distributors of ""Trivial Pursuit"". He claimed that more than a quarter of the questions in the game's Genus Edition had been taken from his books, even to the point of reproducing"
"Primal Quest Primal Quest is an adventure race that has been called one of the most difficult athletic events in the world and was cited as the most prestigious expedition event in North America. Co-ed teams of four trail run, mountain bike, kayak, climb, rappel and mountaineer all while navigating all under their own power. The race has been successfully revived after a 5-year hiatus beginning with the death of adventure racer Nigel Aylott. Each race lasts up to ten days, with winning teams completing the course in approximately six-eight days.The race once featured the largest prize purse in adventure"
"judge agreed, also noting that ""Trivial Pursuit"" was a substantially different product than an encyclopedia -- the board game used and arranged their fact-based material in a very different manner from any of the sources it used. The judge ruled in favor of ""Trivial Pursuit"" and the case was thrown out of court. The decision was appealed, and in September 1987 the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit upheld the ruling. Worth asked the Supreme Court of the United States to review the case, but the Court declined, denying certiorari in March 1988. However, the ""Philip Columbo"""